Why are doctors giving this medication to people who have trouble
sleeping...my daughter has lupus, fibro myagia, and is having
surgery tomorrow on her spine. She is in horrific pain with bone on
bone in her spine...cant sleep...her psychiatrist gave her
Seroquel? I see nothing here about a sleep issue..

bubba nicholson

05/08/14

Why don't they try pheromones before anti-psychotics? I mean, 150mg of healthy adult male
facial skin surface lipid seems to cure borderline personality disorder without torticollis, eh?
Presumably the high probability of permanent sudden violent head twisting one the
psychologists' side vs the complete cure without side effects after just one dose of paternal
pheromone on my side might be weighed fairly? Doing something repeatedly that you know will
permanently harm your patient seems overboard when a simple, free pheromone therapy is so
easily available. NicholsonScience.com.

not moses

05/08/14

Seroquel's combination of inducing drowsiness and lack of dependency
formation makes it a dandy sleeping med. It is =widely= prescribed
at very low doses (typically 12.5 to 50 mgs) for sleep, and is SOP
for sleep in many post-op services. . . . . . Beyond that,
quetiapine is a fine (if not first-choice) med for bipolar I. And
that, in my considerable experience with borderline sufferers, is
likely why it works for classic borderlinism. (I think it was Joel
Paris who wrote extensively on the correlation of bipolar and
borderline symptoms we see in patients dx'd one way or the other.)
Though it is generally far more benign (in my experience) than the
earlier atypical APs, Quetiapine does have sfx that are troubling
vs. some of the other, relatively recently introduced, AAPs like
Abilify arapiprasole and Latuda lurasidone. But, of course, they
have sfx of their own. (See esp. John Muench and Ann Hamer's 2010
article on The Adverse Effects of Antipsychotic Medications for a
truly =excellent= med-by-med and effect-by-effect comparison.) That
Seroquel is now (officially) showing itself to be useful for BPD is
terrific because it provides prescribers more leeway in
pharmacological tx of BPD with specific pts who may be more
sensitive to the specific sfx of the other two AAPs. RG, Psy.D.,
&quot;Four Levels &amp; 15 Polarities of Borderline Dichotomy&quot; online..

michael stevens, md

05/08/14

I have successfully converted a number of adults, and 3-4 older
adolescents, with Borderline Personality Disorder, from
psychotherapy non-responders and/or non participants, (including
DBT and variants), to participants, with many achieving symptomatic
remission of BPD symptoms over time. I would note that Seroquel
has benefits that include robust anti-agitation, anti-aggressive,
and anxiolytic effects at 100- 200 mg qd, with extraordinarily low
rates of EPS, dystonias and related acute onset early motor side
effects (including akathisia). Having used almost all the second
generation antipsychotics in persons with BPD, I believe a
comparative trial would provide useful evidence, and I would not be
surprised if Seroquel XR was both better than most in both efficacy
and tolerability..

Greg Mercer, MSN

05/19/14

Other than marketing, is there any reaason for the use of the XR formulation? It has been nothing more
than a wasteful patent extender..

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